During those first two years I couldn't get very many people to go along with my idea for the magazine. I didn't have time; I was preaching all the time. If it hadn't been for Dr. Bell, there would never have been a Christianity Today, and if it ... more

The truth has never been lost, but it has been ignored. Only within this century have scholars attempted to reconstruct early Church history apart from the writings of the church fathers. A few of them have been provocative in their reevaluation. ... more

First, by way of background, most Jews have believed in the coming of the messiah, or mashiakh, for centuries. Probably one of the most famous references was by RaMbaM, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides. He was a 12th Century sage who lived in ... more

These were orthodox Christian thinkers and artists who were not theologians and made important and somewhat revolutionary contributions to various secular disciplines. They're interesting people because they're both subversive of the existing ... more

Lean and mean, like St. Paul: "I knew only Christ, and him crucified." We think that to be a Christian means to experience God through Christ. We believe that Christ was God experiencing life and death (at our hands) as an ordinary guy, and that ... more

Excommunication is invoked when someone has done something so contrary to the teachings of the church that he/she is declared to be "out of communion" with the church. They are forbidden from taking the Eucharist/Lord's supper/communion (by ... more

Among the more important factors are the nepotism, corruption, incompetence, and anarchy that permeate the Palestinian Authority. And it's an authority that periodically makes grandiose pledges, like they're going to stop terrorism or they're going ... more

By Andrew Different Bible versions are arisen from the translators employing different manuscripts available at the time of translation and the different method employed such as formal equivalence (or word-for-word translation) or "dynamic ... more

We know, with a fair degree of certainty, that Jesus spent his adult life in and around the area now known as Israel, and his childhood in Egypt. The New Testament specifically mentions Jesus in Egypt in Matt. 2: [13-15] And when they were departed, ... more

109 As regards Jesus being an Essene according to "secret" Dead Sea Scrolls, even before the discovery of the scrolls, over the centuries there has been much speculation to this effect, but Massey skillfully argued that many of Jesus's presumed ... more